Although these make extensive use of free software from Nokia Qt Development Frameworks and Google, this is a community project and is not supported or endorsed by either Nokia or Google at present. The alpha release of Necessitas is exciting for KDE as support for Qt is a prerequisite to get KDE software running on a wide range of mobile platforms. The project also underlines Qt's value in community-led, cross platform applications, which KDE strongly supports.

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Way to go, plenty of applications from kde would rock on android, kmail, korganizer, akregator, okular, etc - and have a bigger audience then on meego.
I sincerely believe that a lot of kde users would love to have syncing in place with native kde-apps on their mobile - and make plenty use of the donate button in the app store.

I'm not sure, but they may well be the same thing (name change? release codename?), or at least significantly overlapped. Notably, the android lighthouse wiki page on preparing and compiling Qt here now directs people to the equivalent necessitas wiki page, and also, less significantly but more interestingly, the necessitas home page says "Welcome on the home of the android lighthouse project." at the top.